Busk-steel



(No Model.) A 4 F. L. SUGKLEY.

BUSK STEEL. No. 497,142. Patented VMay 9, 1893..

@mwa/bo@ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

FLORENCE LOUISA SUCKLEY, OE HOTCHKISSVILLE, CONNECTICUT..

BUSK-STEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,142, dated May 9, 1893.

Application tiled February 9,1893.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, FLORENCE LoUIsA SUCK- LEY, of I-Iotchkissville, county of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Busk- Steels, of which the Vfollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved busk steel adapted to prevent the rising of garments about the waist of the wearer, and to cause them at all times to keep a perfectly smooth and even appearance.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a front elevation of a section of the front part of a. garment, showing my invention applied; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the front steels incased with my invention applied.

Referring to the gures on the drawings, l indicates one side of the front part of a garment, provided with a steel 2, and hooks or loops 3. 4. indicates the other side ot' the garment, and 5 the hooked stud. These parts may be of any usual and ordinary construction. 6 indicates a metallic hook firmly secured, as by rivets 7, to the lower extremity Serial No. 461,641. (No model.)

of the steel 2. The hook should preferably be made deep and of flat metal, so as to lie close to the body of the wearer. It should open downwardly, and is provided with a dared end 8 the flare of which is adjacent to the extremity of the steel and in an opposite direction to the curvature thereof for facilitating its adjustment in practice.

The garments to be used with it may be of the ordinary kind, and the bands may be inserted under the hook, or they may be provided with special pockets or tapes if preterred.

A busk steel provided with a downwardly opening hook at its extremity, said hook having a flaredend adjacent to said extremity, and said Hare being in an opposite direction to the curvature of theV steel, substantially as specified.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

FLORENCE LOUISA SUCKLEY.

Witnesses:

C. A. POTTER, WILLIAM DAKIN. 

